I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.

yaw, didn't know Linux influence is so high on FreeBSD.

though, it may be a good sign - as it sorta base system becoming split in packages, may be on day LTS version FreeBSD will be born and it'll become usable

TIL: "as with broken ABI the drm-kmod related kernel modules just panic and reboot each such system instantly … and this problem persists for whole 3 months...I have spoken about that problem for years"

Indeed, stable and solid system, I wouldn't be part of CorpIT team who needs to support such setups.